Four teachers at Buford Middle School say if it wasn’t for teamwork and extended support, they wouldn’t have been able to accomplish their most recent feat.

Karen Dingler, Lisa Hallman, Paige Johnson and Mary Beth Mize are among 18 teachers in the Lancaster County School District who earned certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

National Board certification is regarded as one of the highest honors in the education profession.

The New Year’s resolution of “out with the old and in with the new” applies to that out-of-view medicine cabinet behind the bathroom mirror that you stare at every morning while brushing your teeth or combing your hair.

Like a refrigerator, medicine cabinet supplies pile up, often past their expiration dates, said pharmacist Hugh Mobley of Mobley Drugs.

And just like the refrigerator, a medicine cabinet needs to be cleaned out regularly.

Although this sounds clichéd, the excitement really was palpable at the ribbon-cutting for the new Del Webb Library at Indian Land.

Even before 3 p.m., the 54 chairs in the front were filled to capacity.

Others had to stand on their tiptoes, craning their necks for a view of the historic event.

But the ribbon-cutting – the symbolic culmination of several years of planning and work by the Lancaster County Library’s board, its staff and many others in the community – was not the main event Sunday.

In February 2007, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency jointly released new guidelines designed to reduce the diversion of prescription drugs, while also protecting the environment.